www.washingtontimes.com Topics: Chris Mcdanielhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/chris-mcdaniel/?utm_medium=RSSwww.washingtontimes.com Topics: Chris Mcdanielen-usSat, 30 Aug 2014 11:36:52 -0400Judge tosses tea party candidate's Senate challenge to Sen. Thad Cochranhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/30/judge-tosses-tea-party-candidates-senate-challenge/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>A Mississippi judge has delivered a blow to a tea party-backed candidate, dismissing an election challenge to Sen. Thad Cochran on grounds that he encouraged voter fraud.</p> <p>U.S. Senate candidate Chris McDaniel argued that Democrats who voted in their June 3 primary may have gone back to the polls June ...Kellan HowellSat, 30 Aug 2014 11:36:52 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/30/judge-tosses-tea-party-candidates-senate-challenge/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSChris McDaniel files a legal challenge to Thad Cochran's Mississippi victoryhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/14/chris-mcdaniel-files-a-legal-challenge-to-thad-coc/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>State Sen. Chris McDaniel formally filed a legal challenge Thursday to the results of the June 24 Republican primary runoff in Mississippi's Senate race, which he lost to incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran.</p> <p>The challenge was submitted on the last legally possible day in Jones County, the county circuit-court clerk's office ...Thu, 14 Aug 2014 21:35:13 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/14/chris-mcdaniel-files-a-legal-challenge-to-thad-coc/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSMcDaniel sues to overturn Mississippi Republican primaryhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/14/mcdaniel-sues-overturn-mississippi-republican-prim/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>State Sen. Chris McDaniel formally filed a legal challenge Thursday to the results of the June 24 Republican primary runoff in Mississippi's Senate race, which he lost to incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran.</p> <p>The challenge was submitted on the last legally possible day in Jones County, the county circuit-court clerk's office ...David SherfinskiThu, 14 Aug 2014 17:41:42 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/14/mcdaniel-sues-overturn-mississippi-republican-prim/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSSenate Republicans paid for Mississippi attack ads painting tea partyers as racist: reporthttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/16/senate-republicans-paid-mississippi-attack-ads-pai/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Mississippi attack ads that painted conservative Republicans and tea partyers as racists were funded by Senate Republicans, RedState Editor-in-Chief Erick Erickson has confirmed.</p> <p>Advertisements by All Citizens for Mississippi, which attacked state Sen. Chris McDaniel and painted conservatives as racists, were partly funded by Sens. Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, Rob ...Jessica ChasmarWed, 16 Jul 2014 10:58:03 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/16/senate-republicans-paid-mississippi-attack-ads-pai/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSAnn Coulter: Chris McDaniel should concede, live to fight another dayhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/10/ann-coulter-chris-mcdaniel-should-concede-live-fig/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Conservative commentator Ann Coulter said state Sen. Chris McDaniel should concede in the Mississippi Senate race, warning that the Republican and his "Sore Loser Brigade" could be torpedoing his chances of having any sort of political future.</p> <p>"Even in cases of actual vote fraud, history shows that the contesting politicians ...Seth McLaughlinThu, 10 Jul 2014 08:55:10 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/10/ann-coulter-chris-mcdaniel-should-concede-live-fig/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSTed Cruz knocks 'D.C. machine,' supports fraud probe in Mississippi Senate racehttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/8/ted-cruz-knocks-dc-machine-supports-fraud-probe-mi/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Sen. Ted Cruz says that it is "appalling" that Sen. Thad Cochran and his allies resorted to recruiting Democrats on their way to winning the GOP primary in Mississippi, saying it is "unprincipled and wrong" and that allegations of vote fraud should be investigated.</p> <p>Mr. Cruz, Texas Republican and possible ...Tue, 08 Jul 2014 09:29:38 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/8/ted-cruz-knocks-dc-machine-supports-fraud-probe-mi/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSDEACE: Can conservatives fight a two-front war?http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/7/deace-can-conservatives-fight-two-front-war/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>What do you get when you cross a president with an underwater approval rating with an opposition party with an even lower approval rating?</p> <p>Why, the 2014 election cycle, of course. It has the potential to be a watershed moment in the future of the American political landscape because, for ...Steve DeaceMon, 07 Jul 2014 16:15:22 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/7/deace-can-conservatives-fight-two-front-war/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSThad Cochran campaign accused in bizarre press call of 'harvesting black votes' http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/3/thad-cochran-campaign-accused-bizarre-press-call-h/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>A conference call set up by Sen. Thad Cochran's campaign camp took a turn to the bizarre, after a caller who identified on Twitter as a freelance journalist broke in to repeatedly ask: Why was the candidate's camp "harvesting black votes?"</p> <p>The Blaze reported the caller as a freelancer who ...Cheryl K. ChumleyThu, 03 Jul 2014 07:34:39 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/3/thad-cochran-campaign-accused-bizarre-press-call-h/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSChris McDaniel offers bounties for hard proof of electoral wrongdoing in Mississippihttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/3/chris-mcdaniel-offers-bounties-hard-proof-electora/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>State Sen. Chris McDaniel said Thursday he will be handing out bounties to people who can dig up evidence that leads to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in voter fraud in his primary race against Sen. Thad Cochran, who was declared the winner.</p> <p>Mr. McDaniel has yet to ...Seth McLaughlinThu, 03 Jul 2014 13:28:54 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/3/chris-mcdaniel-offers-bounties-hard-proof-electora/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSPHILLIPS: Lessons in winning, lessons in losinghttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/1/phillips-lessons-winning-lessons-losing/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>A week has passed since the unbelievable Mississippi Senate runoff election. For the Republican Establishment, the news just keeps getting worse.</p> <p>Now stories are emerging of actual payments for votes: The campaign of RINO Sen. Thad Cochran was paying Democrats to cross over and vote for him.</p> <p>Chris McDaniel, Cochran&rsquo;s ...Judson PhillipsTue, 01 Jul 2014 14:54:01 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/1/phillips-lessons-winning-lessons-losing/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSChris McDaniel, True the Vote challenge Mississippi primary votehttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/1/chris-mcdaniel-true-the-vote-challenge-mississippi/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>A conservative group filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday challenging the outcome of the bitter Mississippi GOP Senate primary, saying that investigators should take more time to determine whether election laws have been broken and whether illegal ballots were cast.</p> <p>True The Vote, which bills itself as the nation's ...Seth McLaughlinTue, 01 Jul 2014 20:52:07 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/1/chris-mcdaniel-true-the-vote-challenge-mississippi/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSPHILLIPS: Silence gives consenthttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/30/phillips-silence-gives-consent/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Silence gives consent.</p> <p>It is an old proverb that means if someone does not speak up about a wrong, they give their consent to that wrong.</p> <p>The silence from the Republican National Committee is deafening. For the last week, the echoes of the primary battle in Mississippi have reverberated.</p> <p>Last ...Judson PhillipsMon, 30 Jun 2014 10:21:59 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/30/phillips-silence-gives-consent/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSDEACE: GOP’s other Mississippi senator finds race-baiting other Republicans funnyhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/30/deace-gops-other-mississippi-senator-finds-race-ba/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>While many conservatives across the country are still fuming about the Obama/Alinsky race-baiting tactics the Republican Party establishment used to help K-Street corporatist puppet Thad Cochran win the Mississippi U.S. Senate runoff last week, the Magnolia State&rsquo;s other GOP senator has a different reaction.</p> <p>It turns out Sen. Roger Wicker ...Steve DeaceMon, 30 Jun 2014 10:55:46 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/30/deace-gops-other-mississippi-senator-finds-race-ba/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSPHILLIPS: The King Pyrrhus of the Republican Partyhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/27/phillips-king-pyrrhus-republican-party/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Greek King Pyrrhus fought with Rome during the Hellenic Age. He won his battles, but his victories were so costly that eventually his armies were destroyed. This is where we get the term a &ldquo;Pyrrhic&rdquo; victory.</p> <p>Haley Barbour is the Republican Party&rsquo;s version of King Pyrrhus.</p> <p>Barbour is the former ...Judson PhillipsFri, 27 Jun 2014 13:22:39 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/27/phillips-king-pyrrhus-republican-party/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSLETTER TO THE EDITOR: GOP is its own worst enemyhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/27/letter-to-the-editor-gop-is-its-own-worst-enemy/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Politics in America today have become so unbelievable that I often wish events were only the imagination of a Hollywood screenwriter with a penchant for ever-thickening plots ("Chris McDaniel's campaign to investigate 'irregularities' in Mississippi runoff," Web, June 26).</p> <p>When I heard how operatives dragged Sen. Thad Cochran, Mississippi Republican, ...THE WASHINGTON TIMESFri, 27 Jun 2014 18:44:04 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/27/letter-to-the-editor-gop-is-its-own-worst-enemy/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSChris McDaniel's campaign to investigate 'irregularities' in Mississippi runoffhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/26/mcdaniels-campaign-to-investigate-irregularities-i/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>State Sen. Chris McDaniel said Wednesday that his campaign team plans to investigate "irregularities" in the primary race, as it considers whether to pursue some sort of legal challenge after his razor-thin loss to incumbent U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran in a Republican runoff a day earlier.</p> <p>Mr. McDaniel and his ...Seth McLaughlinThu, 26 Jun 2014 07:40:11 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/26/mcdaniels-campaign-to-investigate-irregularities-i/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSPRUDEN: Shameless race-baiting and betrayal in Mississippihttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/26/pruden-race-baiting-and-betrayal-in-mississippi/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>K Street won a big one Tuesday night in Mississippi. Preserving Thad Cochran in the U.S. Senate, like a specimen in the Museum of Natural History, was important to the Republican establishment and its network of lobbyists, string-pullers and special pleaders who pose as citizens of rectitude and nobility, not ...Wesley PrudenThu, 26 Jun 2014 19:35:08 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/26/pruden-race-baiting-and-betrayal-in-mississippi/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSPHILLIPS: No more Mr. Nice Guyhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/25/phillips-no-more-mr-nice-guy/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>The Mississippi Republican Senate runoff election between incumbent Thad Cochran and state Sen. Chris McDaniel proved two things.</p> <p>First, it proved a conservative, principled candidate can run in an election. It also proved the establishment wing of the Republican Party is little different from the Democratic Party.</p> <p>Their goal is ...Judson PhillipsWed, 25 Jun 2014 11:47:42 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/25/phillips-no-more-mr-nice-guy/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSChris McDaniel defiant, blasts Sen. Cochran for leaning on 'liberal Democrats'http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/25/chris-mcdaniel-defiant-blasts-sen-cochran-leaning-/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Tea party-backed Chris McDaniel refused to concede his bitter Mississippi GOP runoff defeat to Sen. Thad Cochran, blaming the loss on "liberal Democrats" for hijacking the desires of Republican primary voters in the bright red Magnolia State.&nbsp;</p> <p>While pinning the loss on Democrats who surged to the polls in support ...Seth McLaughlinWed, 25 Jun 2014 08:32:16 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/25/chris-mcdaniel-defiant-blasts-sen-cochran-leaning-/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSSCochran win draws criticism of open primarieshttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/25/cochran-win-draws-criticism-of-open-primaries/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>Sen. Thad Cochran won Tuesday's Mississippi Republican primary almost certainly without winning a majority of the Republicans who voted in the primary.</p> <p>The victory by the 76-year-old incumbent over conservative challenger state Sen. Chris McDaniel, coupled with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's loss earlier this months in his primary race, ...Kristen EastWed, 25 Jun 2014 20:28:14 -0400http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/25/cochran-win-draws-criticism-of-open-primaries/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS